Bug 8040

Summary:	Entry for PPC FAQ: Keymap problems
Product:	[OLD] Docs-user	Reporter:	Olivier Reisch (RETIRED) <doctomoe>
Component:	Gentoo Linux PPC Installation Guide	Assignee:	Rajiv Aaron Manglani (RETIRED) <rajiv>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	seemant
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PPC
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Olivier Reisch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-09-17 12:05:13 UTC

Q: I recently emerged XFree, but when using it, my international keyboard layout
does not work correctly. The main keys work fine but I am unable to compose
special characters like the "at" sign. The startx output says something like
"could not load keymap, falling back to default keymap". What is wrong?

A: Check that the permissions on /var/tmp are set to drwxrwxrwx. If not, change
them by typing chmod a+rwx /var/tmp This will allow XFree to load keymaps
properly again.

Comment 1 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-10-07 08:27:13 UTC

Is there a PPC FAQ?

//ZhEN

Comment 2 Rajiv Aaron Manglani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-10-14 02:38:31 UTC

added to gentoo ppc faq. the faq is in cvs as
gentoo-src/gentoo-web/xml/doc/en/gentoo-ppc-faq.xml,v but is not yet on the website.